—Lancaster Farming. Saturday, March 17, 1973
18
Feed Crisis Probed
At Neppco Meeting
Some 90 growers and turkey
industrymen from six states
gathered in Gettysburg last week
for the Mid-Atlantic Turkey
Conference sponsored by the
Northeastern Poultry Producers
Council (NEPPCO) in
cooperation with the Turkey
Division of the Pennsylvania
Poultry Federation.
Highlight of the Conference
was a report by John H. Frazier,
Jr. president of the National
Grain & Feed Association and
partner of Hennessy &
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atrazine controls
fall panicum.
Plenty of growers last year learned
late in the season that the “foxtail”
they thought grew through their
herbicide was really fall panicum.
And plenty of growers this season
will learn that if you tank mix Lasso
plus atrazme, you control fall
panicum. Plus you’ll control foxtails,
crabgrass and other annual grasses
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Associates, Chicago, titled, “An
Overview of the Developing Feed
Crisis”.
“Overall, there will be no
shortage of feed grain - corn,
wheat, oats and barley - in 1973,”
Mr. Frazier declared, “but fish
meal is almost unobtainable and
we do not have soybean supplies
to carry us through to the new
crop year starting in September.
Unquestionably, this is a crisis.”
He then ticked off the series of
seemingly coincidental cir
cumstances that led to the
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current crisis - an accelerated
demand for meat by many
peoples of the world; draughts in
Russia, China, India, Southeast
Asia, Australia and Central
Africa; almost flood conditions in
the U.S. soybean producing
areas; fish off the coast of Peru
that disappeared; a tremendous
shortage in the U.S. of not only
railroad cars, but engines and
train crews as well; plus the
international currency
realignments that favor ex
porting for the U.S.
All of these conditions, coming
at approximately the same time,
caused the crisis, he said. What
they presage for the immediate
future is high feed prices and a
world-wide protein shortage. To
counteract both, Frazier
reported on Secretary Butz’s
recent decision to bring set-aside
acres back into production and go
for large crops of beans and feed
grains on the risk that the-U.S.
could find markets for the excess
production.
“I have great faith in Secretary
Butz and Assistant Secretary
Brunthaver,” Frazier said. “I
believe they will come up with
changes to achieve the desired
acreage. Weather, as always, is
in the hands of the Almighty, but
if we plant the acreage the
government wants and are
blessed with favorable weather,
we will be more than com
fortable, supply-wise. If not, or if
anything else goes wrong, feed
grain prices will explode upward
and the crisis will continue for
another year or more.” he
concluded.
Following Frazier to the
podium was Dr. L.M. Potter of
Virginia Polytechnic Institute &
State University who discussed
“Ingredient Substitutes for
Least-Cost Turkey Feed For
mulation”.
After lunch, the group heard
the new president of the National
Turkey Federation, Charles
“Chip” Strickler of Harrison-
HEHIUDE IV ■■ ,
Monsanto
burg, Va., call for “A Positive
Action Program for the Turkey
Industry”, The industry needs to
unite, Strickler said, and become
an aggressive, militant force
both politically and from a
promotional standpoint.
Jr. Joseph H. Mac Neil of Penn
State showed slides and ex
plained the mechanical deboning
of turkey as well as how to use
and market the deboned meat.
Concluding the day-long
program. Prof. Robert M. Grover
of the University of
Massachusetts told “How to Set
Your Price and Get It”. His
remarks were directed at those
growers who by virtue of their
location produce, process and
market a limited volume to a
discriminating clientle willing to
pay a premium for a locally
grown bird.
“It is likely that production
costs in 1973 will reach an un
precedented high,” Grover said.
“Added to ever increasing
processing and marketing costs,
prices that were considered
premium in past years will not
yield a satisfactory return in
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1973,” he said., “It is essential,
therefore, that turkeymen
carefully recompute their ex
penses in light of current costs.”
If costs indicate that selling
price should be raised, the
turkeyman must evaluate how
his customer views the product
and its price in relation to the
availability and price of com
peting turkeys as well as sub
stitute food products. Also, the
average income and affluence of
his customers must be con
sidered. 1
“The more accurately he can
predict the attitude of his
customers as to how they see his
products in relation to these
factors,” Grover concluded, “the
more precisely he can set a
selling price acceptable to him
and his customers.”
During the business meeting of
the NEPPCO Turkey Division
held during the Conference, Ross
V. Smith of Thurmont, Md.,
David Timerman of
LaFargeville, N.Y., and Leroy
Zimmerman of East Earl, Pa.
were elected to the Division’s
Executive Commiti.ee.
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